Seeking proposals for papers for an edited volume exploring andforegrounding genocide as a cultural and literary category for approachingnarrative with the objective of identifying cultural logics of genocidethat might not typically be understood as such and also of highlightingnarratives of resistance of resistance to genocide that provide animagination of an alternative way of living and organizing socialrelationships. In the current critical discourses of literary and culturalstudies, we hear much about postcolonialism, colonialism, nationalism,globalization, citizenship, and, of course, paradigms of race, class,gender, and sexuality. Related to such discourses but much less mentionedare the discourse, concept, and above all practice of genocide which suchcritical discourses rarely confront directly or in depth. Thesediscourses, however, could be mobilized to help us address, comprehend, andresist the practices and cultural logics of genocide that, far from beingfacts of history we seek to understand retrospectively, are ongoingpractices that often elude naming, identification, and redressas we see byrecent events in Rwanda, Bosnia, Chiapas, and persistently in NativeAmerica. Proposals for papers are sought exploring such issues as howgenocide is represented, how it is narratively recognized, misnamed, ormisidentified, how it is defined; what is the continuum of genocidal logicinto practices of everyday life not usually or necessarily understood aspart of such a logic, such as the logic of the commodity? What do comparingacts of genocide reveal about its logic? Papers should deal with specifictexts which might include literary works as well as political texts such asUN policies and resolutions and also critical studies of genocide such asSamantha PowersThe Problem from Hell, Philip Gourevitchs work, andothers. Inquiries and abstracts should be sent to Tim Libretti atT-Libretti_at_neiu.edu.